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Like Tamlin I come from a "wet" darkroom background. I still have my 4 x 5 Sinar view camera and Omega 5 x 7 enlarger and have thought many times about selling them and adding to my "digital" dark room. I'm thinking now that I will hang on to them and resurrect everything when I retire. The wet and digital experiences obviously overlap but one thing I would say about the "wet" is that (no pun intended" is that I could focus more on the end result. With all the variables involved with a wet darkroom it certainly takes longer to get the end result that you want and with far more restrictions. But...I always had an idea of what I wanted going in I and I would often spends hours getting there, a meditation of sorts. If you are young I would recommend you give the wet darkroom a try. I think you'll find that it will give you a much deeper experience of creating something special, rather than the somewhat manic click/delete/paste world that digital can easily become.
Cheers, Rat
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